I am a researcher at the Enrico Fermi Center and I currently work at the Institute for Complex Systems of the Italian National Research Council (Rome, Italy). I am an associated scientist at the Statistical Mechanics and Complexity Center in Rome. 

I am a physicist and my research activity includes subjects that are at the interface between statistical physics, cosmology, gravitational dynamics and systems with long-range correlations. I have published about 70 papers in international journals and about 40 contributions to the proceedings of international conferences. I am co-author of the book entitled Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures (Springer Verlag 2005). I am also an editor of the book `Dynamics and Thermodynamics of systems with long range interactions: theory and experiments'' (AIP, 2008)

With some colleagues I have opened the blog Roars = Return On Academic ReSearch. to discuss about the situation of research and university in Italy. In collaboration with Stefano Zapperi I have studied some of the problems of the Italian university and research system.  We recently wrote a book I ricercatori non crescono sugli alberi (in Italian, the English translation sounds like "Researchers do not grow on trees") and we have opened a blog.

This is a workshop that I have recently  co-organized